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8 March 2014

Focus on Life Week 10: The big picture

This week's prompt was to take a wide angle shot...As the only place I've ventured this week has been the hospital - Monday for botox shots in my paralyzed arm, Wednesday for hydrotherapy - and the weather has been blah - grey, wet and cold! - there have been few opportunities to take photos :(But I did snap this at first light yesterday...

Now, this is the view I choose to focus on whenever I look out the back of the house. I imagine we live in a forest surrounded by tall trees...But this is the reality - this is the big picture *sigh*

Almost forgot to show this week's Giveaway - a handmade sketchbook

More photos and info here where you can leave a comment if you want to enter the draw to win tomorrow.

What a difference there is in the world we see.....it all a matter of how you choose to look at things. You focus on the trees and dream of a forest and I would image there are some that see the fence and cozy yard and dream of a home.

So stark, yet so comforting at the same time - the first one. Then, to see the 'big picture' - wow. It is quite the transformation. I like that you look at it the way you told us. Things (life, etc.) are what we make them and I love your attitude about your 'forest'. Hope you're responding well to your treatments and feeling better this weekend!!

When we stayed in a rented house in Scotland on holiday one year I was thrilled to see it backed onto a wonderful forest of trees. You could enjoy an early morning shower with the feeling of being in amongst the trees.Your imagination can carry you anywhere you want to go Claire.Lynn x

This wee artwork has sat on my desk since 2009. It reminds me to experience each day deeply. As the text says at the very bottom, 'What a realisation of something more'. Click the image to visit its creator's corner of Blogland.

About Me

I suffered a serious stroke over 10 years ago (aged 43 at the time) and it's been a slow, often frustrating, recovery...
I lost my speech and was totally paralyzed on my right side, but with patience and regular physiotherapy, I can now speak, walk short distances, operate the computer, but my right side is still paralyzed. I get botox injections 3 times a year in my right bicep and forearm, which relaxes the high-tone muscles and makes it easier to stand and walk. Last year I started weekly sessions of hydrotherapy, where I build up the wasted muscles by exercising while supported by the warm water. It's bliss at the time, but I ache like heck next day - but it's so worth it :)